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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

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SUMMARY OF WORLD'S HAPPENINGS. LONDON, June 15. Mr Andrew Carnegie has presented Dunfermline with a school of, textile industry, to cost £11,000. . Mr William Waldorf "Astor has just distributed £10,000 among four London charities. " An ounce of mother, m religious teaching is (says the Bishop of Liverpool) worth a pound of priest. j Manoeuvres based on the siege of Port Arthur' will be carried out m the neighborhood of Chatham during July and August. Russia more than anybody would wel-; come a full understanding between Ger-; many and Great Britain. : . Of the detachment of fifty Egyptiansoldiers who were recently^ lost m the] Kirdofan desert twenty-four lost their lives. ' •.■.:.... . '. The mayors and. municipalities of over! •1200 towns, m the Department of Her- . ault have resigned m order to force the Government, ta accede -to the winegrowers' demands. .. Damage estimated at. between £40,009 and £80,000 was done by the cyclone at Karachi. Half the craft' m .harbor were sunk, says the Bombay.' Gazette. "Johann Orth," tbe cousin of the Em- , peror of Austria/ who mysteriously disappeared m 1891, is reported to have arrived m France from Rio ! de la Plata. Four hundred cyclists, summoned atBrierine for refusing to pay a new tax, to which they object as' unjust, will ride ib procession to the law court, writes a Geneva correspondent. [■ /• Wilfrid Grainger, of Redbank, Aew Jersey, killed a barmaid, and then committed suicide because lie could not be served with a drink that he wanted. '■■ j Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia, the! Kaiser's 'cousin, was personally degraded! by his Majesty, expelled from the Court, and banished from Germany for the rest of his life. { -'- ■:--. : - / : _A motor-car overturned while-descend-ing Sup Rising hill, War wichshire, arid Mr Harry Johnson, an America- tourist, was. killed. His wife and three others, sustained!! terrible injuries. - -■-•'■'- i The editors of Japanese newspapers have been officially advised to abstain from the publication of ' inflariimatory articles on the American question^"* / It is stated that a Frencb company bought for -£40,000 the secret of the aeroplane invented by the brothers Wright m Ameriifc. > ■ - V_Five/ people were Killed yesterday by an earthquake which occurred at Val- / divia. Chili. The custom house, the parish chiirch, several ■ houses,' and. two I railway bridges were destroyed. I" The Union . Jack ■ Club, which it: is hoped will be free from debt! when the-! King opens it on. July Ist, will be the ; most palatial building ever erected for , the i benefit of sailors and soldiers; Professor Pickering says the old theory of the moon as a worn-out cinder where nothing ever happens, must be discarded v There is proof, he says, of presentday lunar- volcanic activity as well as evidence of vegetation. - " . All the. hundred boys who last year made the voyage round the world ori tbe ocean training ship Port Jackson havej obtained berths, , twenty-one ,bf .'tbem I having been engaged on Cunard liners. . Mr D. C. Corbin, the millionaire of Washington, has married Anna Larseri Petersen, formerly a domestic servant.. Born. in Sweden of. peasant parents, she now /.becomes tbe /mother-in-law 'oi the Earl pf Orford, whose wife is Mr Corbin's. daughter. ; The wearing of badges with the word. l"aryried" will shortly" be miade^coinpiil- | sory m tjie Southern' American State of j Alabama, telegraph's- .a New York cor-' respondent, tor those, who carry ' weapons. . ■ . ' , -' -.... Detectives pounced upon a man carrying a suspicious parcel and. waiting at the door of the cliurch which Mr j. D. Rockefeller attends. First soaking it m water, the detectives opened the parcel .im a cellar, and found six cravats. In Kokomo,. lndiana, there was a famous dog which, because of it's wisdom, was named Socrates. It died,- and has been given a public funeral, which was attended by. the 'city officials, business liaen, and a nuniber of women. . Judge Scully, iri declaring a case at Lewse County Court, said he should like to see a law .passed compelling those actually running a business to put up their own names. It was not. honest for people to trade iri the names of others. A municipal Sch.ulzahriklinik (school dental clinic) has been opened, m the Germany city of Freiburg. The dentist at the head of this school examines all the children m the city, both m their homesxand m the public schools. The King has not only won the Derby twice, but . also/the St. Leger and the Eclipse Stakes twice, as well as the One and Two Thousand Guineas, the Ascot Gold. Cup,, the: Manchester Cup, and .the Grand National,-.the whole exceeding m value £100,000. / . ' - '" ' ;'•;'" - Mr-Birrell does not-; think that the state of Ireland so far. warrants the enforcing of thie Coercion Act.. He .stated m the Commons yesterday that he "stiU ' has confidence iri the ordiriary law, pro-! perly and impartially administered," toy maintain order,' > The lot of the farmers' wives of America is declared by President Roosevelt to be a harder one than; that of the hired help. With ,411 his belief that the natural occupation jfor woirien is" that of a homekeep'er, he. admitted that there was much which the average, husband could do to make, the lif e oi his wife brighter and lvjopier. ' .-. '.■_ /. . / .". Details. of y?X extensive. .Hindu plot to inveigle Mahommedans .into an : ariti-. British movement are now emerging m Calcutta, where the police ha!ve seized a quantity of compromising correspondence with Hindu leaders m. the house of Teakut Hassaih, a paid MahonimedaQ, agita ■'' tor, telegraphs a Simla correspondent. *> FIVE MIDDIES DROWNED. . . The launch of. the battleship.,'Mirinesota, m which eleven men -were/returning- to their ship T after . yisiiing.the Jamestown Exhibition, was" run dpyfn by a steamer the name of which is known! to the' naval authorities. All the men, who included five midshipmen and six sailors, were drowned. . BUBBLE. COMPANY. . A bubble company m, Paris has. justburst with rather more than the .com-

pleteness usual iii ' suelf cases. " The' concern called itself the ."American Exploration Company,'* but police rjesear.ch into iis methods ' seems to indicate that the exploring extended np furtjier £bah the finding of gullible subscribers. Tfre "director^gerieral, . one" ST. ,' Wogtz,. has been placed undpr lock .aM ,j?ey . .npflri charges of fraiid,^ Although .^ey, styare capital was '£40,090, ;fae suni .found m the company's" safe was. just— three halfpence. ■, Ong of the fleeced, shareholders is a University professor, who has subscribed £3600. EXPLORER ROASTED ALIVE. The Swiss Government has received from Sir Edward Grey communication of -a message from the British Consul at Monrovia, Liberia, regarding the death of M. Walter Wolz, tof Berne, a. mining explorer. ,M. Wolz was burned alive m the hinterland of the black Republic. „ The natives disarmed and bound him and then threw" hini into a wooden page, to which they set fire. CAUGHT IN A ."BLAZING MINE. y.Six men who were comparatively,recent arrivals m Canada lost their lives as the result of a fire at the mouth of a coal mine at . Strathcona, : Alberta, tele-graphs-a Winnipeg correspondent. The fire began m the engine-room, and the elevator over tbe main shaft became involved. Subsequently a rescue party fourid the bodies terribly charred at the bottom of the ;shaft. MOVING A VILLAGE. The village of Sohrusan, m Bohemia, which was found to be built on a valuable cpalbed,lhas been bought for £100,---000 by a speculator and razed to the ground. The inhabitants, who number more than 1000, are rebuilding their houses a mile away.

KING'S GARDEN PARTY. The garden party, which, the King and Queen will give at Windsor Castle on Saturday, June 22, at the close of the Ascot, week, will be the largest function bf the kind ever held.

No fewer, than seven thousand guests have been invited, " and speciial trains' will be " run f torn London, for their ac-

commodatiori.^ The guests will be received on the East Lawn, and music 'will be supplied by the bands of the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Horse Guards.

.PANIC IN A CHURCH. - A wild panic occurred on June 9 during vespers at the 'Church of Villers-les-Nancy, near Nancy, France. : While the congregation was at prayers the massive stoiie balustrade of the organlpft fell wfth a tremendous crash among the congregation, one of the choristers falling; with it. The congregation fled m terror from the building. One woman was killed, and two others were so

gravely -injured that they are riot expected to recover- The chorister who fell with the masonry was not seriously injured,

KILLED BY LIGHTNING, A tree, beneath which four men were sheltering from a thunderstorm, at Goring, England, was struck by lightning. Two of the men — Sidney Charles Orchard, aged nineteen, and Frederick Bennett Wadley, aged twenty-three, were killed outright. Their clothing was reduced to shreds. The other two men. were both injured, one of them, named Percy Winton, seriously. The fourth man was James Orchard, father of one of the men who were killed, who described his sensation as being like a blow on the 'head from a hammer/ JAPAN'S GREAT EXHIBITION. The great exhibition bf Japan will be opened at Tokio in -1912, on April'l|' when the world-famous cherry-trees of Japan are m full bloom, and will be closed on October 31, when the season of chrysanthemums will have just set m. The exhibition is the undertaking' of the . Japanese Government, and will be international' m scope and m equipment. The grounds will 'cover 'an' area. of' about 250 acres, the exhibition buildings themselves extending oyer thirty acres.' The Government is espciaUy anxious to invite foreign visitors from every quarter of the world. ! JAPAN- AND AMERICA. if Japan is quite aware of the weakness* of the American \Army and the disadvantages under which the United Statei Navy labors. Its ships are good, but the crews are made up of adventurers of ' all sorts of races. In case of War theref would be little ' safety for America.-^ Eclair, .Paris. f - '•'"'. American feeling has always beep friendly "to •Japan;'; and how that "': the ! , diplomatists have learned the danger' of playing with fire there" is good reason to hope that'notbirig further will occur to disturb it.— Collier's Weekly, New York. - [ 'y : -.■' ■ CLOUDBURST'S HAVOC. Some twenty or: thirty persons were killed or drowned by tornadoes Vand cloudbursts early on June 8 m Southern Illinois, Southern Indiana,; and Northern Kentucky. ' Fifty houses, were demolished, property;! was destroyed, and " ; crops were damaged. The greatest loss of life was at' Gradyville; Kentucky; where fifteen wer| killed, vAt West ' York, Illinois, a w<jman Was found dead m the . branches of a tree some distance - from her home. ; • -v .- - friends After war; '■ .■- M.izvolsky, 4 th£ Russian % Minister '_»f Foreign Affairs, 'hinted befdre the Bud- ' get Committee; of |the Duma on . June ■ 13 that more cordial relations between ; Russia arid Japan ai-e probable. ; {y^S -. ■ He said : "The Portsmouth Treaty was a first regarded here .jas a mere? armistice. " It was belieyd that both Russia. and Japan would "seek jfor, revenge arid, pre- - pare to. renew the conflict. ';"'.- "Opinibrt has nojW changed radically, ," - and, m addition to a commercial arrangement between the two cbuntrieg. which will promote' trade land industry, a still closer rapprbchemeijit to Japan' is possible, more particularly as the same ten- r : dericy is noticeable m connection with'/ the- relations, of France and Japan." > SCOTTISH TQWN SINKING, f , The inhabitants jof Motherwell, Lain* ; arkshire, which' is j undermined ' by coal - - and iron fields,, were alarmed by a number of , /serious subsidences. • A large ' two : stbrey building fin Wellington streetwas rent from top fo bottom.. The be-, cupants: rushed into the street m the' ' wildest alarm. Buildings iriyotber parts v / of the town sank about Bii inches, and yy ' the gas pipes are tjpm and twisted)' in-/ ' volving^' considerable! danger from escaping gas. The damage is spread overman y extensive area, and hundreds of; build--, ings present a hanging arid dangerous .'■.'■ aspect. Many of them were hew./; ! 7 : V the work ;of: a tidal wave;/ . Amissibriary who has arrived at' San /--/. Fraricisco by the/steamer Coptic gives, ' the first hews which has been received'/; there, of the ] typhoon ;.£hd tidal, wave i "■';■' which occurred m the Caroline islandsin the latter part of March. ; The Oleai /' group of those, islands was devastated. / The -, tidal wave swept the land . arid buried it , under a "blanket ' bf sand, froni *; the ocean's bfcd. '.-."(:. / ' y Fifteen hundred persons" were rendered homeless, and 250 persons were drowned • . " on one island. The typhoon lasted thjtee '-„.' days. All the' trees and shrubs 'wef_., , either uprooted or buried m sand. When the tidal wave swept the larid hundreds of people /saved themselves by swimming until- the* water! receded.' y. /. The German authorities sent a steamer with supplies^ on "which. the natives ex- "/-• pect to subsist until they can- produce their own crops. .-/■■. / BALLOON'S WTLD, CAREER. / V M. Gaudet, the aeronaut, had an ex- ; citing experience iii;an attempt to circle the jamestown Exhibition m a steerable .'/ balloon. The airship struck, the. wsiier. while, travelling at great speed ; : arid TO>ped and rose half a dozen times, sub: merging the : aeronaut, each time. Jt.^as »'. feared he would bey drowned; < A dozen ' ■', cuttersyfrpm Battleships m {Hampton/ '-, Roads started to tbe rescue)" and one / from, the Alabama secured tbe, drag, rope.' The bluejackets, ; hpwever>y had to /let ! go, and the , balloon then careered straight . ■: for the battleship Alabama, and struck her . amidships. : The crew, y who had . been watching the erratic behaviour :of itlie balloon, secured the trail rope, and ; , rescued/ M. Gaudet m a few minutes. '.->- - A HUSBAND. AU American records, of damages for the loss' of life have been broken by/a. verdict of the Supreme Court awarding 101,789 dollars (ov^r £20,300) to Mrs Sarah L. E.. Read,/ tfie widow of. Mr. Frank.. B. Read, a! wealthy paper-bag manufacturer, who three years ago was ' kUled by, a New.^ork. Central, train. With Mr and .Mrs George Noakes, arid; their son and daughter, ne was driving -m a! motor-car m June, .1904, over the ■■■ railway crossing at Vi^n Cortland Sta- \. tion when the car was struck by an advancing! train. Mr Read was killed, while.- Miss Noakes ; and the chauffeur each lost a Teg. , A. jury recently award-, •ed Miss Noakes £7000- and the chauffeur. £2000 damages. r. : .-/".. ZEPPELIN WAR BALLOON. Count Zeppelin is to attempt to sail his airship, on which. Gorman military authorities are basing great hopes, from the Take of Constance, on ,tpe border . of Germany and .Switzerland, to ..'- Wil- '■*•' helmshaven, on the North Sea coast, - irrespective of wind and weather. , ' After landing at Wilhelmshaven and giving the naval authorities there an

opportunity of inspecting his wonderful invention, Count Zeppelin intends to sail bis airship straight back to the Lake of Constance,' ' The distance betweenthe Lake of Constince arid Wilhelmshaven' is ..approximately y4sjQi "rqLiles. ■'. Count- Zeppelin's airship sailed against the wind aY a /speed of thbty Guiles an hour, iri the trial trips last' ye'ar.V i' ; ' .- /GERMAN'.CROWN/PRINCE EX- . POSJS COURT CLIQUE. ■-■':' . The German Grown Prince ; has made a very successfud debut m practical poli.tics by bringing about the downfall of the powerful Court y clique which -had contrived to - obtain/ personals-influence over, the Kaiser and thus indirectly over the Government of Germany.: The exposure of this clique, headed^ by Prince Philip of; Eulenburg,. which was reported last weekj was due to representations, made by the Crown Prince ,; to the Kaiser, who acted .on bis eldestson s information "and advice ■'" m "this case. -."-..' '■' y : ' y-y "■;• ;;/-;■; No 'one elre at' Court dared to /env= ; lighten the Emperor regarding the true character of his favorite courtiers, so ■ that but for the energetic action of the ■ Crown Prince the influence of tbe Cama-" rilla might have continued for an indefinite period, to the detriment of Germany's interests. The Crown Prince, . who had hitherto remained m the background, has scored a^ distinct triumph m this affair, and theGerman people have gained a . pleasing glimpse of the young man who m the natural course of events will one day rule over thenu •